Talk:Distraction display

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Not distraction?

Oh, I thought it was relevant. Extract from mobbing behaviour:

Mobbing may function by reducing the predator's ability to locate nests, in other words as a distraction, since predators cannot focus on locating eggs while they are under direct attack.

AshLin (talk) 02:50, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

It seems plausible, but it needs a reliable non-WP ref ;) for inclusion as a distraction display. Shyamal (talk) 05:38, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

Seems to me ;-) that that's what you are good at! AshLin (talk) 05:47, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

New proposed bibliography (unfinished)

Armstrong, E. A. (1949). Diversionary display--part 2. The nature and origin of distraction display. Ibis, 91(2), 179-188.

Armstrong, E. A. (1954). The ecology of distraction display. British Journal of Animal Behaviour, 2(4), 121-135.

Barash, D. P. (1975). Evolutionary aspects of parental behavior: Distraction behavior of the alpine accentor. Wilson Bulletin, 87(3), 367-373.

Byrkjedal, I. (1989). Nest defense behavior of lesser golden-plovers. Wilson Bulletin, 101(4), 579-590.

Caro, T. M. "Distraction Displays." Antipredator Defenses in Birds and Mammals. Chicago: U of Chicago, 2005. 343-46. Print.

Duffey, E., & Creasey, N. (1950). The "rodent-run" distraction-behaviour of certain waders. Ibis, 92(1), 27-33.

Edmunds, M. (1974). Defence in Animals. Harlow, UK: Longman Group Limited.

Foster, S. A. (1988). Displays of paternal stickleback: Defenses against cannibalistic groups. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 22(5), 335-340.

Long, C. A. (1993). Bivocal distraction nest-site display in the red squirrel, Tamiasciurus hudsonicus, with comments on outlier nesting and nesting behavior. Canadian Field-Naturalist, 107(1), 104-106.

Mitchell, R.W., & Thompson, N.S. (1986). Deception: Perspectives on Human and Nonhuman Deceit. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.

Nijman V., Nekaris K.A.I., (2012) Loud Call, Startle Behavior, Social Organisation, and Predator Avoidance in Arboreal Langeurs (primates)

Pavel, V., & Bures, S. (2000). Offspring age and nest defence: Test of the feedback hypothesis in the meadow pipet. Animal Behavior, 61(2), 297-303. — Preceding unsigned comment added by TheETeam (talk • contribs) 03:24, 1 October 2015 (UTC)

Ristau, C. A. (1991). Aspects of the cognitive ethology of an injury-feigning bird, the piping plover. In C. A. Ristau (Ed.), Cognitive Ethology: The Minds of Other Animals (pp. 91-126). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Rowley, I. (1962). "Rodent-run" distraction display by a passerine, the superb blue wren Malurus cyaneus (L.). Behaviour, 19(1/2), 170-176.

Sonerud, G. A. (1988). To distract display or not: Grouse hens and foxes. Oikos, 51(2), 233-237.

Sordahl, T. A. (1990). The risks of avian mobbing and distraction behavior: An anecdotal review. Wilson Bulletin, 102(2), 349-352.

Walters, J. R. (1990). Anti-predatory behavior of lapwings: Field evidence of discriminative abilities. Wilson Bulletin, 102(1), 49-70.

Wiklund, Christer G. (1983). Nest Defence in Evolution of Reversed Sexual Size Dimorphism in Snowy Owls Nyctea scandiaca.

Whoriskey, F. G. (1991). Stickleback distraction displays: Sexual or foraging deception against egg cannibalism? Animal Behaviour, 41(6), 989-995.

— Preceding unsigned comment added by TheETeam (talk • contribs) 14:52, 29 September 2015 (UTC) 

I guess this is a student thing? If you're a team of people, by the way, you ought each to have a separate login to comply with Wikipedia policy. I'm not sure why you're compiling a bibliography - such a thing is not really wanted in a technical article; its use would be to assemble relevant facts for the article which you then cite using these sources as inline references, one at a time. So, making a "complete" list (that'd be when science has stopped advancing?) is at most a background task. Chiswick Chap (talk) 07:44, 1 October 2015 (UTC)

I supposethis is just a working list of sources that the students wish to examine in order to improve the article and not something that is going to go into the article. Shyamal (talk) 08:59, 1 October 2015 (UTC)

That would be correct; this isn't intended to be a comprehensive bibliography, just a list of sources that will be cited in the final improved article. "Unfinished" is actually just intended to designate that more will be added along the way. I'd never think for a second of science as being complete in such a fashion! Also, apologies for any difficulties/confusion/annoyance here. Students were asked to post proposed source lists on talk pages so my hands are a bit tied by course demands.152.3.43.140 (talk) 14:53, 1 October 2015 (UTC)